Date: 1699
"Now all these Expressions [concerning natural conscience] seem to signifie clear and distinct Representations, as Pictures or Sculptures represent their Originals."
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Date: 1699
"We suppose these original [or Natural] Impressions to be like Gold in the Oar, that may be refin'd; or rough Diamonds, that by polishing, receive a further lustre"
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Date: 1699
Natural or original impressions are "like Monograms or Sketches, that want their full Lines and Colours to compleat them; and yet one may discern what or whom they are made to represent, though imperfectly drawn"
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Date: 1699
The opponent of innatism "might as well expect, that in a Seed, there should be Leaves, Flowers, and Fruit; or that in the rudiments of an Embryo there should be all the Parts and Members of a compleat Body, distinctly represented"
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Date: 1699
Natural Conscience is a "Natural Light"
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Date: 1699
Locke denies not "that there are Natural Tendences imprinted on the Minds of Men"
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Date: 1700
"Conscience alone, my awful Judge within, / Does not acquit me of enormous Sin / But God and all his sacred Angels, bear / Witness to this, and will my Justice clear."
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Date: 1700
"To th' uncorrupted Judge within thy Breast / Thy Conscience I appeal; will that attest / That thou believ'st what thou hast boldly said, / That Job does God in Righteousness exceed?"
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Date: 1700
"Unfinish'd Notions in the Mind he sees, / And the rude Lines of half-drawn Images."
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Date: 1700
"Black throngs of Woes invade my frighted Soul, / As crowding Billows on each other roll."
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